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<p>The new 10.1&quot; Archos 101 G9 sports a 1280 x 800 multi-touch capacitive screen and runs on a 4 core ARM cortex A9 @ 1GHz as well as 512MB&nbsp;of RAM which should be powerful enough to output 1080p video via the HDMI port.&nbsp; There will also be two more models with faster processors and more RAM&nbsp;which should arrive to market in the near future.&nbsp; &nbsp;The biggest change to this generation of Archos tablets is the bundled 3G stick which extends the networking capability of this device to include Wireless N, Bluetooth and cellular networks.&nbsp; At $320 it is a little more expensive than some of the competition so <a href="http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviews/1395/pg1/archos-101-g9-android-tablet-review-introduction.html">head over to Hardware Heaven to find out if it is worth the extra money</a>.</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><div class = "center-article-image"><a href="/news/Mobile/Archos-looks-grab-some-tablet-market-share" class="inline-image-link" title="View: DH_archos-101-g9-tablet_front.jpg"><img src="/files/imagecache/article_max_width/news/2012-02-07/DH_archos-101-g9-tablet_front.jpg" alt="DH_archos-101-g9-tablet_front.jpg" title="DH_archos-101-g9-tablet_front.jpg" class="pcper-inline" width="602" height="402" /></a></div></p>
<blockquote><p>&quot;Archos are back with an updated &quot;Gen 9&quot; version of the 101 Android tablet. Featuring Android 3.2.1 and updated specifications can it offer something worthwhile in an ever more crowded market?&quot;</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.pcper.com/news/Mobile/Archos-looks-grab-some-tablet-market-share" target="_blank">read more</a></p>https://www.pcper.com/news/Mobile/Archos-looks-grab-some-tablet-market-share#commentsMobile101 G9Android 3.2.1archoshoneycombTue, 07 Feb 2012 18:05:21 +0000Jeremy Hellstrom53531 at https://www.pcper.comASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime Review: Thinner, Fasterhttps://www.pcper.com/reviews/Mobile/ASUS-Eee-Pad-Transformer-Prime-Review-Thinner-Faster
<p><div class = "center-article-image"><a href="/reviews/Mobile/ASUS-Eee-Pad-Transformer-Prime-Review-Thinner-Faster" class="inline-image-link" title="View: P1050395.JPG"><img src="/files/imagecache/article_max_width/review/2011-12-27/P1050395.JPG" alt="P1050395.JPG" title="P1050395.JPG" class="pcper-inline" width="602" height="452" /></a></div></p>
<p>The original ASUS Eee Pad Transformer was a bit of an upset in the tablet market. Before its launch, there was no particular reason to believe that ASUS would be able to provide a better product than any of the many other PC manufacturers entering the Android tablet fray. Sure, I like most of the ASUS products that I&rsquo;ve been able to review, and I believe they have some good engineers. But they also had no experience beyond a few Windows tablets and convertible tablets. </p>
<p>Yet they were successful. At the time I called the Transformer &quot;the best Android tablet on the market today&rdquo; and gave it with a Gold Award. Consumers apparently agreed, as it flew off shelves with such speed that ASUS has decided to debut a follow-up only half a year after the original hit the market. </p>
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<p class="rtecenter"><div class = "center-article-image"><a href="/reviews/Mobile/ASUS-Eee-Pad-Transformer-TF101-Review-Assemble" class="inline-image-link" title="View: transformer3.jpg"><img src="/files/imagecache/article_max_width/review/2011-08-06/transformer3_0.jpg" alt="transformer3.jpg" title="transformer3.jpg" class="pcper-inline" width="602" height="520" /></a></div></p>
<p>Tablets may be the darling of the tech industry, but they&rsquo;ve also received their fair share of criticism as well. One of the most consistent barbs throw towards them is the tablet&rsquo;s inability to serve as a competent platform for content creature. While it&rsquo;s technically possible to write a document or edit an image on a tablet, it&rsquo;s certainly not enjoyable.</p>
<p>Part of the problem is the lack of a keyboard and mouse. Touchscreens are beautiful and intuitive, but they&rsquo;re not precise. While third-party cases and docks have tried to solve this issue, they&rsquo;re often both clunky and expensive.</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s little surprise that a tablet designed specifically to work in conjunction with a keyboard dock has hit the market, but it is surprising that the first such device comes from ASUS, a company with relatively little experience building mobile products. The Eee Pad Transformer is already the second-best selling tablet on the market (after the iPad, of course) and reports indicate sales are constrained by supply rather than demand. What is it that has made the Transformer a quick success?&nbsp;</p>
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<p><div class = "center-article-image"><a href="/reviews/Mobile/Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-101-Review-Best-Android-Tablet" class="inline-image-link" title="View: icon1.jpg"><img src="/files/imagecache/article_max_width/review/2011-07-30/icon1_0.jpg" alt="icon1.jpg" title="icon1.jpg" class="pcper-inline" width="602" height="304" /></a></div></p>
<p class="rtecenter"><em>Courtesy of Samsung</em></p>
<p>Samsung's first product to make a splash into the Android tablet market was the original 7&quot; Tab, and while its performance numbers were on par with other similar tablets produced in 2010, it left many consumers wanting more multimedia, gaming, and productivity features like what was available with Apple's iPad and iPad2. Many vendors, including Samsung, were dealing the same issues and challenges associated with the lack of tablet support in Android-based games and applications because Android's SDK only comes in one flavor for general mobile devices, not tablets with larger displays.&nbsp;</p>
<p><div class = "center-article-image"><a href="/reviews/Mobile/Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-101-Review-Best-Android-Tablet" class="inline-image-link" title="View: icon2.jpg"><img src="/files/imagecache/article_max_width/review/2011-07-30/icon2_0.jpg" alt="icon2.jpg" title="icon2.jpg" class="pcper-inline" width="602" height="304" /></a></div></p>
<p class="rtecenter"><em>Courtesy of Samsung</em></p>
<p>After hearing feedback from consumers and hardware reviewers, Samsung completely redesigned the Tab 10.1 to accommodate users eager for enhanced video and gaming capabilities that take advantage of modern technologies like Android's latest Honeycomb OS and NVIDIA's Tegra 2 processor that support higher resolution displays beyond 1024x768 (the Tab 10.1's display runs at 1280x800). They also gave the Tab 10.1 a slimmer profile that is comparable to the iPad2. The Tab 10.1 can be purchased for around $499 for the 16GB version and $599 for the 32GB version, which is also on par with its Apple counterparts. We are reviewing the 16GB version to check out all the new features in Honeycomb and see what surprises Samsung included with the Tab 10.1 that justify the $500 price tag.</p>
<p>Continue <a href="http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Mobile/Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-101-Review">reading our review of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1</a>!&nbsp;</p>
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<p>As the table in AnandTech's review demonstrates, the interior of most tablets is dominated by a 1 Ghz ARM&nbsp;Cortex A9 with Tegra 2 doing the heavily graphical lifting.&nbsp; This puts the onus for standing out among the crowd on the look of the tablet and the compatible peripherals as well as the pice. &nbsp; Acer's design was not particularly well received at&nbsp;AnandTech, with several seams reducing their enjoyment of the tablet.&nbsp; On the plus side is the peripheral support, with HDMI&nbsp;and both a microSD&nbsp;card reader and a miniUSB port you will have no problems interfacing with your other gadgets.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/4454/acer-iconia-tab-a500">With a cost just under $400 AnandTech does like the tablet</a> but they can't help but point out that with quad core ICS/Android 4.0 and Kal-El just around the corner you might want to wait for the next generation.</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><div class = "center-article-image"><a href="/news/Mobile/Acers-new-Honeycomb-driven-Iconia-Tab-A500-tablet" class="inline-image-link" title="View: AAT_iconia.jpg"><img src="/files/imagecache/article_max_width/news/2011-06-27/AAT_iconia.jpg" alt="AAT_iconia.jpg" title="AAT_iconia.jpg" class="pcper-inline" width="600" height="397" /></a></div></p>
<blockquote><p>&quot;Next in our series of Honeycomb tablet reviews is the Acer Iconia Tab A500. The A500 was the second Honeycomb tablet to go on sale, and is one of four on the market at present, all of which are very similar. They share basic specs&mdash;10.1&rdquo; 1280x800 displays, NVIDIA&rsquo;s Tegra 2 underhood, 1GB LPDDR2 RAM, 16-64GB onboard NAND, front and rear facing cameras with HD video capture, basic wireless connectivity options, and stock versions of Android 3.0/3.1 Honeycomb (albeit with different preloaded software packages). The hardware similarities makes things like design and price that much more important, and the latter is where Acer seemed to have an edge.&quot;</p>
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<p>The fourth Google I/O&nbsp;took place over the past two days and <a href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/4327/google-io-2011-keynote-updates-for-phone-tablet-tv-and-accessories">AnandTech was there to bear witness</a> on the keynote speech and other presentations.&nbsp; As you might well expect Android was the most talked about, the new Honeycomb update was discussed in great detail and with good reason.&nbsp; The update allows Android powered devices to use USB&nbsp;peripherals in the same way as a PC, powering mice, keyboards and even XBox controllers which is a big change from only being able to be used as a USB device and offers even more for those interested in the Open Accessory Library.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Others will be more interested in Google's Music Beta which will let you upload your music collection to the web and includes the ability to make playlists and albums as well as gatherig meta artist information.&nbsp; You can think of it like Amazon's Cloud service, though hopefully more reliable, but as Google seems not to have got the permission of the record companies it may not be.</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><div class = "center-article-image"><a href="/news/General-Tech/News-honeycomb-hideout-Googles-IO" class="inline-image-link" title="View: fry2.jpg"><img src="/files/imagecache/article_max_width/news/2011-05-11/fry2.jpg" alt="fry2.jpg" title="fry2.jpg" class="pcper-inline" width="150" height="113" /></a></div></p>
<blockquote><p>&quot;Google&rsquo;s I/O 2011 keynote may have suffered from a few choice leaks, namely the new Music service and Ice Cream Sandwich announcement, but Google still managed to include some surprises. Android 3.1, the update to Honeycomb, was announced along with a slew of development platforms, including one committed to bringing better introduction of accessories to Android devices of all types, and a home integration platform based on Android.&quot;</p>
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